Gianfranco Meggiato

Gianfranco Meggiato was born in Venice in 1963, where he attended the Istituto Statale d’Arte (art college) for five years, studying stone, bronze, wood, and ceramic sculpture. He is one of those artists who can never be confined within a spatial or temporal category of art history, or studied in terms of comparisons with, or references to, artists of the past. Meggiato has no fear of responsibility or challenges; he has always shown attention and respect for the Renaissance arts and, perhaps partly because of this, has maintained an expressive code that is independent and recognisable over time, yet always changing. Gianfranco Meggiato leaves nothing to chance while establishing nothing in advance in studies or preparatory drawings. Everything that looks ‘within reach of the eye’ morphs into an enigma to be solved while what appears contorted, cryptic and impenetrable breaks down magically before our eyes, provided we surrender to his work, temporarily becoming an active, integral part of it. His works are at the public and private collections in France, Italy, Spain, USA, Great Britain and other countries.